whim

There are no lifeless spots in his works; every whim of his takes shape, as if by sorcery, in splendid figures.

But he has told me I have reason for the whim, and that I should continue.

It was partly a despairing woman's whim, an absurdity, and partly she was prompted by her magic practices to take the cloth.

And upon your whim likewise depends the special forcemeat used.

Such secret provisions have often been agreed to simply upon the whim or the ambition or the likes and dislikes of the rulers.

This whim of Phonograph's was received with whoops of appreciation.

Running around the world to get married without the faintest excuse save an impulse--a whim.

Betty and Sir Charles followed her; Margery, her whim gratified, had vanished into the darkness of the pines.

The whim of the senatorial candidate in choosing him for a companion he did not then try to account for.

The twin brother out of pity consented to humor her whim, not thinking it would cost him his life.